Refrigeration Initiative

For companies with large ammonia systems, refrigeration is the most important system in your plant and is essential to your business. Without a high-performing refrigeration system, product quality is adversely affected and production may be shut down.

Even so, many facilities operate refrigeration systems that do not adequately meet the needs of production. Often there are persistent problems with temperature fluctuations, contaminants and high operating costs. By optimizing the refrigeration system, these problems can be eliminated. Even a system that operates well can be improved.

The benefits of optimizing your refrigeration system include:

• Improved temperature control
• Better system performance and reliability
• Reduced energy and maintenance costs.

How BC Hydro can help

BC Hydro’s Refrigeration Initiative promotes a systems approach to optimization of refrigeration systems, focusing on the design, operation and maintenance issues of the system.

The Refrigeration Initiative can help your organization if you are experiencing:

• Difficulty maintaining temperature
• High refrigerant usage
• Air and other contaminants in the system
• Equipment failure
• Inability to react to demand spikes.

BC Hydro can help. For most large ammonia systems, the recommended first steps are:

• Assessment and review: preliminary assessment of refrigeration system and costs.
• Monitoring and performance tracking: data monitoring of compressors and periodic performance assessment.

Other ways BC Hydro can help include:

• Education and training: technical resources and workshops to train staff on the best practices for refrigeration system operation.
• Incentives*: Potential co-funding of system energy studies. Also incentives may be available for implementing energy savings measures identified in an energy study. This can help to reduce the payback period for your upgrade.

Contact us

To find out more about the Refrigeration Iniative, contact us or call 1 866 453 6400.

*Incentives are subject to change without notice.